Upon completion of this course, the dental professional should be able to:
- Compare the differences between a paperless and a chartless practice.
- Identify the owner of the dental record.
- Contrast the difference between a subjective and objective statement.
- Describe basic focuses of the four HIPAA standards.
- Justify the importance of keeping original patient records.
- Illustrate and translate the use of office standardized and common treatment and charting abbreviations.
- Discuss the advantage of comprehensive documentation versus incomplete treatment entries.
- List the differences between vital, important, useful and non-essential documents.
- Outline necessary documents for a complete patient dental record.
- Describe how to correct an incorrect charting entry.
- Relate the difference between business and clinical dental records.
- Describe the cabinetry styles of paper records.
- Describe the importance of dental record storage and back up.
- Explain the retention of dental records.
- Employ the proper transfer of dental records between locations and dental offices.
